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In future years, Cobb would travel to Cooperstown nearly every year for the Hall of Fame induction ceremony,

That's worth noting for the fact that in the first decade of HoF inductions, previous inductees were notorious for not attending those ceremonies. The Sporting News ran several articles that detailed and complained about this, and it's nice to know that Cobb was one of the exceptions.

Another anecdote about Cobb was that only three people from major league baseball attended his funeral, presumably because he such was a jerk. According to Richard Bak's book Peach, however, it turns out MLB was about to send a contingent to the services, but Ty's family -- perhaps wary of a media circus -- requested a quick, family-only ceremony before most of the baseball people could make it down to Georgia.

Exactly. Ever tried to "plunk down" a dime? Can't be done, least plunkable coin known to humans. If you want a good plunk, it's gotta be a quarter, assuming no half-dollar available, even if that means getting a nickel back.

True, nickels plunk a lot better than dimes but if you plunk down 4 nickels there's too high a chance one is gonna get away, end up on the floor, then you're bending over to pick it up and all the drama from your plunking is lost.

The country started going to hell when they got rid of the half-cent, two-cent, three-cent, half-dime & 20-cent pieces. (The last of which is the only one I don't own an example of; those suckers aren't cheap.)